The MSI Aegis R2 14th follows an ATX form factor with a height of 493 mm, a width of 231 mm, and a thickness of 482 mm, resulting in a total volume of 54891.606 cm³. Storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD, offering fast data access through the NVMe interface.
The graphics card carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 128-bit memory bus, with a base GPU clock of 2310 MHz, a turbo clock of 2570 MHz, and an effective memory speed of 20000 MHz delivering a maximum memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s. Built on a 5 nm process with 16900 million transistors, it houses 2560 shading units, 80 texture mapping units, and 32 render output units, yielding a texture rate of 205.6 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 82.24 GPixel/s. Floating-point performance sits at 13.16 TFLOPS, and the card connects via PCIe 5 while supporting DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3. Ray tracing, DLSS, multi-display output across up to four screens, stereoscopic 3D, and Double Precision Floating Point are all supported; LHR and RGB lighting are not present.
The i5-14400F runs across 10 cores configured as 6 performance cores at 2.5 GHz and 4 efficiency cores at 1.8 GHz, with 16 threads enabled through multithreading and a turbo clock of 4.7 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2. The clock multiplier is set at 25 and the multiplier is locked, meaning no overclocking is supported through that route. Cache consists of 9.5 MB of L2 and 20 MB of L3, and the processor supports 64-bit computing with a maximum rated temperature of 100 °C. Integrated graphics are not present on this CPU.
In Geekbench 6, the CPU scores 2337 in the single-core test and 11491 in the multi-core test. PassMark results place the processor at 25773 in the standard multi-threaded run and 3709 in the single-threaded test, with the overclocked PassMark result reaching 27389.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at a speed of 6000 MHz, providing the memory bandwidth and responsiveness associated with the DDR5 standard.
Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) alongside Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.3. On the wired side, there is one RJ45 port for a wired network connection. USB ports consist of four USB 2.0 Type-A, four USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C connections; no USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, or Thunderbolt ports are included. Display outputs cover three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, while DVI and VGA connectors are absent. The system also features an S/PDIF out port for digital audio, though a 3.5 mm headset jack is not present.
The desktop CPU sits in an LGA 1700 socket and is compatible with B760, H770, Z790, H610, H670, B660, and Z690 chipsets, carrying a 130W TDP and employing big.LITTLE technology for its core configuration. It supports a dual-channel memory setup with a maximum capacity of 192GB, though the rated maximum RAM speed is 4800 MHz, and ECC memory is supported. The GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture with Intel Resizable BAR enabled, and an HDMI output is present while mini DisplayPort outputs and USB-C ports are absent; XeSS (XMX) is not supported. The processor includes the NX bit for security and covers instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. Air-water cooling is not included, and the system comes with a one-year warranty.
